It is Saturday, July 15th 2017. It
is forming up to be a good day as the drivers start to arrive at the
Warm Springs Raceway. But today and the following day this place
should have been called HOT Springs Raceway. It was Hot, very hot
and the heat took its toll on tires and drivers if you werent
carefull. Thanks to the resident guru Marc Drennen, he rigged up two
shop fans on a generater and attached a sprayer to the fan, instant
mister. This had to be the hit of the weekend as many drivers found
themselves in front of it at one time or another. The racing was
just as hot. The racers that arrived Saturday got themselves the
advantage of dialing in their cars and be ready for the next two
rounds of qualifing on Sunday. At the end of day Saturday your Top
Qualifiers were: 4WD Dave Stroud - 32 laps, F1 Hau-Ching Liao 29
Laps and STC Tony Vega 35 Laps. On to Sunday and more drivers arrive
to participate in the event. Time for those drivers to get their
halo runs in and upset the order. In Sportsman Al Gerace had
it after the first round Sunday only to lose it to John Ng in the
fourth round. in 4WD Dave Stroud beat his previous TQ with a round
three amount of 33 and beat out Daniel Colhour by 1.351 seconds.
In F1 it was Hugh Lawson throwing down a 32 lap run to get the pole
and STC Tony Vega would drop his 35 lap time down to a 10:01.190. In
between we had lunch and drinks provided by Tony Vega and RC
Modelsport.com.

On to the Mains

More Pictures and Videos to come

STC Podium

1st - Tony Vega

3rd - Cedric Collins
2nd Todd Rizzo

4WD Podium

1st - Tony Foskett (Way to go)

3rd - Dave Stroud
2nd - Hau-Ching Liao

F1 Podium

1st - Cedric Collins

3rd - Marc Drennen
2nd - Hau-Ching Liao

Sportsman Podium

1st - John Burnett

3rd - Al Gerace
2nd - Steve Sanchez

2017 KO
Propo Grand Prix

The 2017 KO Grand Prix organizers
let us run in their race this year and it was a good event to
attend. Everything ran smoothly but no one could have guessed what
would have happened in the main. Three drivers were at the top of
the Q sheet while the other 7 racers all qualified with the same
number of laps which meant there was going to be one slug fest
coming. With the first half a lap being heavily contested for the
lead we thought we were in for a race long battle. But racing is
racing and events unfolded and one driver got to fulfill his dream
and was actually leading the event for a few laps to the surprise of
some spectators. But the hounds were coming and they were coming
fast. The race settled into its mid race grove with some good
battles going on and to one racer the unthinkable would happen and
he had to do the walk of shame...lol as his phone blew up in his
pants from the texts he was getting from his fan club watching
around the world. We also welcomed new racer Terry Jackson to his
first major race. Check out the video.

Well if you were a betting man your odds
would have been on Markus Feldman for the win. Markus meticulously dialed in
his car during practice and the quals and improved every session out to grab
pole. While his main competitors where chasing their personal best, Markus
always seemed one step or lets say 1 lap ahead. Being that same betting
person if you knew Austin Sarnelle's history you may have given him a shot
at the win, at least a top 5 battling with the Goodwine's the Kaplan's, the
Vega's and Mr. Abreu. But no one had seen Austin outside of GLARCRC for some
years. Just having received his Mecatech just a month before the race he
surely would have been an odds on underdog for the race. But Austin did what
Austin does and had a solid car during qual, improving as well and a solid
performance during the race. But his race time wasn't that easy, he had to
contend with Kyle Goodwine. 3rd place qualifier and not wanting to end up in
3rd. Kyle and Austin had some great battles throughout the race with Austin
starting to put in a gap on Kyle latter in the race. Phil Goodwine (Major
Sponsor) started off strong and was one of four drivers in the main to dip
into the 21 second range....21 SECONDS. But couldn't match the pace for the
duration and finished 4th. Joel Abreu improved on his outing from last year
grabbing 5th spot in the finale. He did have to worry about a hard charging
Craig Kaplan that finished 6th, 9 seconds behind.

Congrats the Markus Feldman on his win at
the FG International Challenge.

The GT / 4WD Main was
heavily contested as well. Alan Trump, your TQ lead the majority of the race
until having issues late in the main and began dropping down the order. That
left the door open for hard charging Daniel Kim (Brooks Motors / Warm
Springs Raceway / Race Sponsor). I'm sure that made Daniels weekend bringing home the #1
trophy. The rest of the GT top 5 was something no one would have predicted.
Mr Bob Sarnelle, usually on top would have to settle for 3rd this year, Tom
Wong had a career best at the challenge and grabbed 4th for the weekend, and
our TQ Alan Trump had to settle for 5th with knowing the #1 was sitting within his reach.

Bob Sarnelle must have
felt the world was coming down on him. The usual number 1 in GT and F1 had
some stout competition this year. Hugh Lawson has always been competitive
but something always got in the way. Not this time. The RS5 driver put it
all together on lap 3 and took the lead from Bob and never looked back. Bryn
Foskett, Ods on favorite, Winner at the Bill Margolis West Coast Challenge
just couldn't get it together and would finish 7th with varying mechanical
issues. And then there is Hau, he always seems to end up on the podium.
Congrats Gents.

2nd Bob Sarnelle (TQ)
-
1st Hugh Lawson -
3rd Hau Chin-Liao -

F1 A Main Video

The GT8 class had its share of fun and suspense. Dan Almario (TQ) jumped out to an early lead until around lap 8 Henry C took the
lead and looked to have things under control for the win until lap 47 when
it stopped, about 5 minutes from the end. That handed the lead back to our
pole sitter Dan and the eventual win. Biboy Angeles was solid the whole ran
and brought home the 2nd place trophy (and something weighing about 23 lbs
someone at home doesn't know about yet :) ), and being consistent and
patient, Club President Glenn Williams would come home 3rd.

2nd Biboy Angeles -
1st Dan Almario -
3rd Glenn Williams

Ian Francisco was the rider on a mission
this weekend at the Challenge. Ian dominated qualifying and in the first two
races of the triple A mains he was head honcho giving him the win. Dwayne
Lawler and Lito Reyes always seem to find their way to the podium at the big
races. Congrats.

2nd Dwayne Lawler -
1st Ian Francisco -
3rd Lito Reyes -

SBK A3 Main Video

Keep
Checking......Updates as the are produced....Videos Coming

KO Propo 2016

Phil Goodwine domination

After Phil had a less than spectacular outing
at the last GLARCRC club race, he put all that behind him to come out for
the KO Grandprix and dominate the weekend. He looked solid in practice and
wasted no time in putting in the time to grab TQ over Craig Kaplan and
Victor Garcia. Phil went on to win by 4 laps over Kaplan and Pena.

July 15 the track is open for practice and
the racers that took the day off start to arrive to get some practice in and
the initial shakedown. Warm Springs is an awesome track and it can have you
chasing a setup depending on the track temp at the time of day and the
amount of rubber being laid down. With 40 plus participants the rubber will
not be an issue. As the rubber and temps (ambient) started to build traction
roll became the big obstacle to avoid. Some drivers had issues during
Saturday qualifying and a couple throwing last ditch setups at the car for
the final qualifier on Sunday to make the show. All of the mains had some
excitment except for F1, Bryn Foskett had the dominating car on his way to
an 8 lap victory over the Gerace's of Tim and Al. In Sportsman, your TQ Jojo
Bayabo had the field covered. Danny Pacho tried to make things interesting
early on and with an early race bobble by Jojo, Danny took the lead on lap
12. But that was short lived as Jojo regained the lead and never looked back.
4WD looked to be Dan Kim's race to lose and unfortunately fate raised its
head and a T-Bone took him out of the race early. That left Dave Stroud to
take over and never look back. Larry Bani made a late race charge and closed
the deficit done to one lap. STC was its own animal in constant flux in the
early part of the race with lead changes among Tony Vega, Victor Garcia and
Phil Goodwine. Tony took the lead on lap 27 and held on to take the win 9
seconds over Victor Garcia breaking the So Cal streak at the event.